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Serbia Today, 97-03-20
Serbia Today
CONTENTS
[01] DRAFT LAW ON RATIFICATION OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND THE
REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA SUPPORTED
[02] ABDUCTION OF SERBS FROM ZAGREB
[03] SAFE LIFE IS NOT SECURED FOR SERBS IN CROATIA
[04] TERRORISM CONDEMNED
[05] JOBS FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
[06] RETURN OF REFUGEES - A PRIORITY TASK OF YUGOSLAVIA
[07] BROADENING OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH HUNGARY AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC
[08] SOLUTION OF THE KOSMET QUESTION WITHOUT THE CHANGE OF INTERNATIONAL
FRONTIERS OF YUGOSLAVIA
[09] DINAR STABLE - PRICES UNDER CONTROL
[10] YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE ARE THE BEST EXAMPLE OF DEVELOPMENT OF STABLE,
GOOD-NEIGHBORLY AND PROSPEROUS RELATIONS
[01] DRAFT LAW ON RATIFICATION OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND THE
REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA SUPPORTED
Foreign relations committees of the Chamber of Citizens and of the Chamber
of the Republics at their joint session yesterday gave support to the Draft
Law on Ratification of the Agreement on Special and Parallel Relations
between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Srpska.
Representative of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Radoslav Bulajic,
while speaking of the importance of this document, said that it confirms
the determination of our country to persist on the course of peace and
cooperation. The Agreement is based on the Dayton-Paris peace accords, i.e.
on the Constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina which was then adopted. Bulajic
recalled that this constitution prescribed the possibility for the entities
to establish special relations with the other states and that the other
entity, Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, has used this possibility even in
Dayton, by signing several of such agreements, among others also the
agreement on confederal relations with Croatia.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Borba, 1997-03-20
[02] ABDUCTION OF SERBS FROM ZAGREB
Croat police has abducted from hotel "Dubrovnik" in the very center of
Zagreb, Vice President of the Executive Council of the Serbian Region Milos
Vojnovic and Under-Secretary for Human Rights Darko Radanov and took them
for police interrogation in the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Croatia,
where they were detained for 45 minutes. Croat government invited to Zagreb
members of the mixed committee for the elections in the Serbian Region, in
order to eliminate some problems about the elections which are to take
place on April 13, 1997 in the Region under the UNTAES protection. Instead
of negotiations, there was a police action and abduction, just like in the
movies, although Vojnovic and Radanov had proper Croat documents and are
not on the list of 150 non-pardoned Serbs from the Serbian Region. The main
spokesman of the UNTAES Philip Arnold qualified this abduction as "a very
bad move of the Croat police", underlining that this must never have
happened because the Serbian delegation was under the UNTAES protection. In
the Serbian Region it is believed that this move of the police was
conceived for purpose of intimidation of Serbs in the Serbian Region. Prime
Minister of the Regional government, Dr. Vojislav Stanimirovic, submitted a
strong protest to the Government of Croatia and to the UNTAES because of
this police action.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-03-20
[03] SAFE LIFE IS NOT SECURED FOR SERBS IN CROATIA
In spite of fierce opposition by the representatives of Croatia, who were
enjoying a strong support by the German ambassador, the UN Security Council
adopted yesterday a presidential communique in which in the last sentence
the request is sent to the UN Secretary General to continue with regular
reporting to the Council "on the situation of human rights in Croatia".
Although the UN Secretary General Koffee Annan extensively informed the
Security Council in what different ways Croatia is continuing with the
violation of human rights against Serbs in its territory, the Council
decided again to send to the government in Zagreb a mild criticism in an
unbinding presidential communique instead of adopting a stronger political
resolution. In the communique it is stated that still little is done for
providing the return of the Serbian refugees.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Politika, 1997-03-20
[04] TERRORISM CONDEMNED
During the talks between the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany
in Belgrade, Wilfrid Gruber and the representative of the Carl Bildt's team
Martin Lutz with the chief of the Kosovo district Milos Nesovic and the
provincial Secretary for Information Bosko Drobnjak, terrorist attacks in
this province were condemned and warning was given that they are making
difficult the dialogue. It was stated that the only way to find the
solution is through the dialogue of the two sides. Gruber and Lutz were
interested in the implementation of the Agreement on normalization of the
tuition in the Albanian language. It was underlined that the
representatives of the Government of Serbia are ready for the talks and
that the positive outcome of such talks will open the road for solution of
the other actual questions in Kosovo and Metohija. On this occasion also
the stand was reiterated of the international community that Kosmet is an
internal affair of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-03-20
[05] JOBS FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
NIS "Jugopetrol" (Oil Industry of Serbia) and the Chinese company "SINOHEM'
from Beijing have signed yesterday a new agreement, as the continuation of
the business relations between the two companies, which started in 1990.
This agreement is the result of the firm decision of the companies to
continue mutual trade relations which are providing for the needs of the
Yugoslav market a continuous supply with crude oil, and at the same time
there are successful experiences in the realization of the Yugoslav exports
on the Chinese market. The former agreement is expiring on March 31, 1997
when the new agreement will come into force, the one signed just now, which
is no longer an one-year contract but a five-year agreement.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Politika, 1997-03-20
[06] RETURN OF REFUGEES - A PRIORITY TASK OF YUGOSLAVIA
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia does not agree with the draft plan of the UN
High Commissariat for Refugees (UNHCR) for finding of the lasting solution
for the problem of refugees in former Yugoslavia, This was stated with
arguments yesterday by the chief of the Yugoslav delegation Bratislava
Morina, at the ministerial meeting held in Geneva. She underlined that for
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia the priority task is the return of
refugees and that it is the duty of the UNHCR to provide for this return,
but equally to Bosnia and to Croatia. While speaking of the so-called local
integration of refugees, there is a lot of speculations about this and
there is an impression that both the UNHCR and the other international
factors would be satisfied in this way to take away from themselves every
responsibility and obligation in the solution of the problems of refugees.
While stating that the UNHCR is seeing the priority solution in the local
integration of a large number of refugees in the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, Morina said that this is opposed to the Yugoslav priorities:
"Yugoslavia is suffering hard consequences from the long years of sanctions
and has no economic potential to integrate a large number of refugees, and
especially not without a clearly defined financial assistance from the
world", said Morina and emphasized the following: "Integration can take
place only to the extent to which the financial assistance would be
arriving".
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-03-20
[07] BROADENING OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH HUNGARY AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC
President of the Hungarian part of the mixed Yugoslav-Hungarian commission
for cooperation and the Under-Secretary of State in the Hungarian Ministry
of Industry, Trade, Energy and Tourism, Lajosh Bereny was received
yesterday by the republican Minister of Mining and Energy Srboljub
Stankovic and Minister of Industry Zivota Cosic. During the talks it was
stated that our country and Hungary are having traditionally good
cooperation in many economic branches and that there is a joint interest
for this cooperation to be broadened and promoted. There was especially an
exchange of experiences in the field of privatization and ownership
transformation, most of all in the strategically most important economic
branches.
Minister of Trade of the Republic of Serbia Srdjan Nikolic had talks
yesterday with the director of the sector for foreign relations of the
Czech Chamber of Economy Eugene Latzo and the Czech Ambassador in
Yugoslavia Ivan Bushniak, on the future economic cooperation. The guests
were informed of the economic reforms and the ownership transformation in
our country and the options for the return to the world trade
organizations. Latzo underlined that the dynamic development of the
economic cooperation should be established through the enterprises which
are having a high degree of independence in their earnings. He expressed
the belief that the return of Yugoslavia will take place soon in the world
trade trends and a hope for a fast concretization of the agreements between
both the old and the new economic partners from the two countries.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Politika, 1997-03-20
[08] SOLUTION OF THE KOSMET QUESTION WITHOUT THE CHANGE OF INTERNATIONAL
FRONTIERS OF YUGOSLAVIA
Solution of the question of Kosovo and Metohija (Kosmet) must be found
without the change in the international frontiers of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia. This was stated yesterday by the president of the Commission
for Foreign Relations and European Union of the Chamber of Deputies of the
Italian Parliament, Achillea Oketo. In this respect there is no difference
whatsoever between the Italian stand and the stand of the European Union,
said Oketo at the press conference after the visit to Yugoslavia of the
Italian parliamentary delegation which was headed by him. Italian
delegation arrived in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in order to be
informed of the possibilities for the solution of the problem of Kosmet and
had talks with the representatives of the Yugoslav and Serbian authorities,
the opposition and the Albanian minority in Kosovo and Metohija.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Borba, 1997-03-20
[09] DINAR STABLE - PRICES UNDER CONTROL
Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic stated for Radio
Yugoslavia that the very fact that the government of national unity, while
starting its work at the time of the strongest blockade of the
international community and complete economic collapse, completed three
years in office, represents qualification of its successful work. Results
which can be evaluated as successful, according to the Prime Minister, are
most of all in the field of stability of prices and of the dinar exchange
rate throughout the past three-year period. This, together with other
measures undertaken by the Government, made possible the achievement of
substantial growth of production and exports, and thus improvement of the
standard of living of the population. In this year, said Prime Minister
Marjanovic, the main task of the Government is to maintain stability of
prices and of the dinar exchange rate, because this is the basic condition
for further growth of economic activities and increase of exports. This
will also provide, most of all "through a restrictive monetary and
crediting policy, the firm financial discipline at all levels. In this
respect financial consolidation of the banking system will begin. Special
care will be taken for the policy of public consumption in this year to be
stabilizational", said Prime Minister, underlining the determination of the
republican and federal authorities to consistently fight against crime.
Further to these measures of current policies, the Government of the
Republic of Serbia is also faced with a great challenge to conduct fast and
efficient economic and social reforms, which will create all the
preconditions for a fast economic recovery, growth of production and of
personal and social standard.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Borba, 1997-03-20
[10] YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE ARE THE BEST EXAMPLE OF DEVELOPMENT OF STABLE,
GOOD-NEIGHBORLY AND PROSPEROUS RELATIONS
President of the Republic Slobodan Milosevic received yesterday Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Greece, Teodoros Pangalos. The attention was focused on
the issues of further development of bilateral relations and cooperation
between the two friendly countries, as well as on the actual international
developments in the region. It was stated that there is a great mutual
interest for constant expanding of mutual relations and especially of the
business cooperation between the Yugoslav and Greek economic partners. It
was underlined that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Greece, by
successful development of their bilateral relations, as well as through
consistent strives for peace and constructive solution of the pending
questions in international relations, are offering the best example of the
development of stable, good-neighborly and prosperous relations, on the
basis of equality and mutual respect, both in the region and in the entire
international community. In this connection, the two countries are
sincerely interested in calming down of the actual tensions and
normalization of the situation in Albania, with which both the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia and Greece are wishing to develop stable and good-
neighborly relations.
Greek Minister also had talks with the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs
Milan Milutinovic about the actual situation and perspectives of
development in the region and on the questions of bilateral cooperation.
Positive qualification was given to the orientation and results in the
renewal of multilateral cooperation and economic linking of countries of
the region where Yugoslavia and Greece are giving significant contribution.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-20 ; Politika, 1997-03-20
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